Re: [Libusb-devel] >=autoconf-2.63 no grokmultiline AC_CONFIG_FILES?

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> >>> Yup, those files should be marked as binary -- we don't want to see
>> >>> diffs
>> >>> of big auto-generated XML-like files anyway.
>> >
>> > Well, the VC6 files are not XML. (*.dsp/dsw)
>>
>> I said XML-like, not XML -- aren't those files a big semi-hierarchical
>> list of almost not manually edittable gobbledy-gook?

Not at all, though the newer versions (*.sln/vcproj) are.  They are vaguely
similar to a makefile, though you certainly ought to be more careful editing
them since they have to be parsed back in (unlike a makefile).  And *I*
certainly want to see diffs.


>> >>> I still don't understand why in your configuration those are checked
>> >>> out as CRLF, but other text files are just LF
>> >
>> > Oh, they are all CRLF in Windows; I just don't use those files in
Windows,
>> > so no issue.  I do use them in Linux, but I have git configured
>> > differently
>> > there.  I use gcc in Linux, and Microsoft in Windows, so I'm ok with
those
>> > files going whichever way you want (presumably LF, as I suggested).
>>
>> So for you, the issue is that those files go weird for git, even though
you
>> never touched them?  Ho hum.

No, those files are fine.  The files that Pete marked CRLF in his
gitattributes are the ones that actually "go weird".  And I do need to touch
them, though the problem arises even if I don't.

Michael